What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
February 25th, 2014 at 11:40:33 AM permalink | |
TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 |
It was well acted and well cast. Great performances don't make a great film for me... it may for others, and I am no movie critic. But a $6 Tuesday special ticket was well worth it. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
February 25th, 2014 at 12:20:55 PM permalink | |
Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 |
The film tried to be too many things at once, and missed being great at any one of them. But there's a lot of humanity in it, and it is awesome looking. |
February 25th, 2014 at 12:24:12 PM permalink | |
Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 |
Each acting nomination is deserved, IMO. Best Picture is marginally deserved, Best Director is debatable. |
February 25th, 2014 at 2:08:06 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | I am curious about some smaller movies that got incredible reviews, with well known actors and good directors, like Inside Llewyn Davis that sold only 1.5 million tickets. |
February 25th, 2014 at 6:06:50 PM permalink | |
Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 | We saw Blue Jasmine, which was stagey but very good. Not great. Obvious and one dimensional in many ways. But still worth the tune-in. |
February 26th, 2014 at 12:05:56 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
It's not the money, it's the convenience. Even my wife has stopped going to movies with her sisters. She says it takes too long and she eats way too much fattening popcorn. Big screens suck, I like a 17" screen 18" from my nose, with headphones. Far more entertaining all around. It's the future, sitting is a crowded theatre with a bunch of coughing rude people is becoming ancient history. It's not a social event, what is it. You don't converse or interact with anyone there. Plays and opera and symphony and ballet are different. Live performers. Movies are a thing of the past, soon to be all in the past. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 26th, 2014 at 5:10:10 AM permalink | |
Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 |
All the coughing rude people are at home watching TV, leaving only to people who want to see the movie in the theater! I dunno. "De gustibus" 'n all that, I guess. |
February 26th, 2014 at 11:22:36 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I recently watched "Flight" mainly because I will watch anything with Denzel Washington in it. All I gotta say is WOW! What an awesome movie I laughed, I screamed, I cried and I rejoiced at a powerful movie. I think its a must see. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 26th, 2014 at 2:08:50 PM permalink | |
beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
Gotta disagree in part with this. Saw ET in 1981 in a premiere movie theater, downtown Minneapolis. Line around the block. no-aisle seating for 2000. Forced people not to leave any seats open to meet demand. And the audience reaction to that movie amplified the experience way beyond anything I could generate for myself - it was magical. Granted people have gotten ruder. Texting/cell phones/talking at the screen/to each other more. But a good movie (last one I saw in a theater was Les Miserables) holds people enthralled for a commonality of experience that's worth enjoying. Standing ovation from everyone there just because it was THAT good. Hear a pin drop before that. Choppy or mediocre movies, you can tell because the talking/texting/etc. shows up as people get bored, though of course it's annoying when they do that. Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |
February 26th, 2014 at 3:24:19 PM permalink | |
TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 | Indeed, there is something great about a mass audience reaction to a film. Watching 'The World's End' in a relatively crowded theatre made it at least 25% better than watching it on the small screen. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |